Cognitive Science
Explore library resources related to cognitive science.
Data Management
- The Library Data Services Department supports JHU researchers, faculty, and students on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses with a spectrum of resources for working with data to make your research and teaching successful.
- The NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Guide supports researchers' efforts to comply with the 2022 NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy. It offers step-by-step guidance on how to plan for data sharing and write a data management and sharing plan to meet NIH requirements.
Scholarly Metrics
Whether you are looking to publish or have publised and want to look at how your research has impacted the field, there are many ways to count, measure, rank, and compare journals, articles, authors, labs, and institutions, based on their scholarly output.
The Scholarly Metrics guide goes in-depth into looking at metrics. For quick access to journal metrics, use the links below.
Where should I publish?
Check out the Open Access Guide on publishing your work open access.
- JANE - Journal / Author Name EstimatorJANE compares your manuscript to millions of documents in PubMed to find the best matching journals, authors, or articles.
- Cabell's International: Predatory ReportsCabell's Predatory Reports is a service that helps you identify fraudulent and deceptive journals. For each journal, the first time it was reviewed is shown, as well as any deviations from good publishing practices that have been identified.
- Think Check SubmitThe checklist is a tool that will help you discover what you need to know when assessing whether or not a publisher is suitable for your research.
- Think Check AttendSister site of Think Check Submit, this site walks you through a process designed to avoid predatory conferences.
Find Journal Metrics
The databases listed here also provide basic statistics like number of articles published per year, number of citations to the journal each year, and number of references made each year.
- Journal Citation ReportsImpact factor, 5-year impact factor, immediacy index, cited half-life, Eigenfactor, Article Influence
- Cabell's International: Scholarly AnalyticsCabell's International is the source for journal information, evaluation metrics, and submission details for universities of any size. Access to six discipline sets: Computer Science and Business Information Systems, Business, Education, Psychology & Psychiatry, Health, and Mathematics & Science.
- CiteScore by ScopusCiteScore is based on the number of citations to documents (articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters, and data papers) by a journal over four years, divided by the number of the same document types indexed in Scopus and published in those same four years.
- Eigenfactor.orgEigenfactor, Article Influence
- Google Scholar MetricsProvides h5-index and h5-median for the top publications in an area. Select Social Sciences at the top of the page, then your sub-category.
- Scopus Journal AnalyzerThe Compare sources tool allows you to search for then select sources for comparison within either a chart or table view. You can compare up to 10 sources with a variety of parameters.
- SCImago Journal & Country RankThe ranking spans 391 research centers representing the 22 countries in the MENA region. It examines 16 indicators from 3 dimensions: Research, Innovation and Society.